We arrived in Paracas right on dinner time, and our guide took us all to a pizza restaurant that offered the second pizza half price for Peru Hoppers. It was actually really good pizza too! We got to know a few of our fellow Peru Hoppers sitting around us over dinner, and afterwards we decided to go for a drink at the bar of one of the hostels in town, though we had an early start so didn't stay too late. In the morning we jumped on a speed boat that took us out...

The Peru Hop bus picked us up from our hostel door on schedule Monday morning. We were bound for the first "hop", Paracas, but had a few things to see along the way. First was the Chorrillos Sign. This was an area of Lima that used to be considered a poor neighbourhood, but after it was done up a bit (and probably the poorer people were moved on elsewhere), it has become quite an elite Yacht Club suburb of Lima. The Chorrillos sign and the Peru tourism sign were...

Back in Lima, only this time we booked a hostel that people had reviewed as quiet! And to our delight it was, even though it was still in the middle of Miraflores. After a nice sleep in we set off to book in our next leg with Peru Hop, a hop on hop off bus that runs between Lima and Cusco. To us, the thought of not having to book hostels or buses or catch taxis between the two sounded perfect, plus it included some activities on the way. That done we moved on...

We really wanted to go and sea some of the beaches in Peru we had heard were amazing, so we investigated heading north. Unfortunately as we did more research we discovered you basically have to go all the way to the border with Ecuador to find anything really nice. Or perhaps our standards are high coming from Australia. We settled on Huanchaco, a coastal village near the city of Trujillo and about 8 hours north of Lima. The bus ride there was so boring it was a...

We were so excited about our airport pickup that we had arranged through the hostel. We wouldn't have to haggle with any taxi drivers or deal with public buses. The only problem was they didn't turn up! Luckily we found a legit looking taxi for the same price. Our hostel was right amongst the bar area in Miraflores, one of the main tourist districts along the coastline in Lima. Some of the online reviews had said it can get a little noisy, but when we were infor...